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As much as I dislike this, they are a business. Running servers and streams is not free. The great conondrum of software...

• pmlnr 7y ago
  In that case, maybe, don't advertise it as free.
  • icebraining 7y ago
    YouTube is not advertised as free, at least nowhere I could find.
    • palerdot 7y ago
      It is considered free by lot of uninformed users. Lot of Youtubers, both budding and established, don't know the real consequence of being at the mercy of Google, that they could be thrown out of YT at the whims of Google.
• baybal2 7y ago
  And yet, Google gets very good prices for servers from OEMs. Instead of terminating people without saying a word, and then stonewalling them, they could've just demanded payment for the service.
  • pilif 7y ago
    YouTube Premium allows you to pay for the service.
  • smcameron 7y ago
    They build their own servers. They are an OEM.
    • baybal2 7y ago
      No, they buy them from Quanta and Supermicro
  • icebraining 7y ago
    Who are you talking about? This policy isn't even in effect yet. The accounts they have terminated were for different reasons, and payment wouldn't have fixed it.